Maygan

Where Maygan comes from

The dictionaries list Maygan as a given name — a female given name, variant of Megan — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1976
    First appearance
    #9,284 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Peak, #3,165
    33 babies named Maygan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2006
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #7,482.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Megan.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Maygan hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.